Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The First Annual Carrie Dickerson Quilt, Art and Music Festival

On Februray 9th, we had the inaugural Carrie Dickerson Foundation Quilt, Art and Music Festival. Here are some of the details as we prepared for the event:

The First Annual Carrie Dickerson Quilt, Art, and Music Festival will take place on Saturday February 9 at Lisa Regan's fabulous Garden Deva Sculpture from noon to 8 PM. We will have beautiful quilts for sale, auction or raffle, and show; artists' and crafters' booths; musicians from the Black Fox Blues days who worked with Carrie to stop the nuclear plant at Inola, OK, and our more recent activist friends who have so fantastically supported the Foundation as we continue in Carrie's legacy. We are thrilled to announce Susan Herndon, Travis Fite, Rocky Frisco and friends from Cosmosis, M. Tim Blake, Wheat Penny,Oceanaut, and more lined up to perform! More musicians on tap to be announced soon. :-)

We will be raising money for the work of the Foundation, which includes promoting alternative energy development; supporting the closing of crumbling nuclear plants and minimizing danger; promoting and supporting rail passenger service in northeastern OK; standing with the clean energy activists of OK and the region against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the dangers of fracking; promoting an awareness and educating children in an appreciation and love of nature, to help them reconnect with and become passionate about their place on earth.

We will also be dedicating a special quilt sale through donation of a beautiful quilt for the children in Japan who have been endangered and displaced by the Fukushima disaster. The organization we are contacting is http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/. Please visit this page to see firsthand reports from Japan.

We will have light food and drink throughout the day, and we invite you to join us for a celebration of what we can do together as a community of hearts. We will ask for a $2 donation at the door, but no one will be turned away! It is going to be a wonderful event, made even better by your presence! ♥
 The day was a lovely success with wonderful music, food, art, craft, AMAZING quilts and beautiful people willing and ready to work together to save our Mother Earth. We had a great day remembering Carrie and her quilting, her courage and her dedication to standing for the planet and her people. 
  We are already planning next year's event! Watch for date and details announcements! 

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